The Kuwaiti electronic artist uses video and music to tell stories and share experiences - and one of those tales will be told during the Millennium Music Conference at his 11 p.m. concert at Savannah's on Hanna (1000 Hanna St., Harrisburg).

"I've taken all the content I've created the past year and a half and ripped it up into tiny, tiny shreds and what I'll do is re-peice and recycle it into a whole new sound and a whole new experience," Sultan said.

Millennium will be only the second live performance for Sultan - his first was weeks ago in Dubai. But the live performance process has been a while in the making.

He began making music in the early 2000s - but did not release any of it for years.

During that time his music matured as he did.

"I didn't realize as I was refining myself in general, growing, learning, evolving, that that was happening in my music too," he said.

That became obvious in 2011, when he released his first album "Hi Fear, Lo Love."

"It was a compilation of all the coolest music I had written all these years," Sultan said. "I had all this content and now I said I'm going to focus on tweaking it."

"Hi Fear, Lo Love," is a play on words and depicts a person at a crossroads. They can either welcome fear into their life and move forward, accepting it or they can be consumed by fear and remain stasis.

Each song contributes to the story, with the beginning one "Better Days" being about a person who is not enjoying the life they currently have. But then the person falls in love in "I Love You," only to grow distant in "Your Absence" and to be left by their lover in "You Left Me." The album ends with the person letting go of the relationship in "Walkin Away" and starting life fresh in "A New Day."

The biggest hit off the album though is the experimental "I Want Her But I Don't Want Her," which incorporates Kuwaiti Arabic lyrics and European beats.

The song was chosen to be part of the Hôtel Costes 15 compilation album, which features music played at the famous Parisian hotel and cafe.

"The compilation catapulted everything I do, globally," Sultan said. "You have people just pouring in saying 'this is the song I ended my night on.'"

"I have friends who have traveled as far as London and Hong Kong and they're like 'Your song's on the sound system!'"

Still, it has only been recently that Sultan has figured out how exactly to best showcase his music to a live audience.

"It's an experimental thing for me," he said. "I can say here and now I don't plan to be a club artist - I'm much more geared to being a performer at a festival or in more artistic and creative spaces."

The stories Sultan tells are of love and of life and incorporate events such as the Arab Spring and topics such as recycling.

Recycling and protecting the environment are two issues Sultan is passionate about, and his passion translates in this music. His latest extended play, "Reuse Me," seeks to spark a discussion among its listeners.

"The world is so ADD, how do you speak to someone who doesn't want to be spoken to?" he said. "You have to use creative means to speak to them. It's merely a medium to socially reprogram someone to make them realize their day to day decisions can have an effect on society."

His song "Like This (Ha-Ka-Tha)" of "Reuse Me" is about the Arab Spring.

"The track came about because I woke up in Kuwait when they were preaching the Friday prayer," he said. "And they [the Muslim leaders] were very aggressive in their tone. They embed fear in you as a person so you stay the course."

"I thought, we just had all these Arabic revolutions, all this embedding of fear in people - so what if I wrote a story, wrote a song, where I came up with one key Arabic leader who had this swag to him and had these intense words - but when you read them they're uplifting?"

Sultan realizes his music is not for everyone and that is the way he prefers it.

"I'd rather please few than have many be indifferent," he said. "Indifference is the worst place to be. I would much rather resonate with 10 percent, 5 percent of the crowd. That would mean the world to me."

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